Esphome not 'seeing' devices in config page

ESPHome
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I recently switched up my network and esphome is having some issues with any connections through the config page. I am using pfsense DNS to control the hostnames, I can log into the host machine and ping xxx.local all day, but esphome config will not see it so I can’t OTA update or view logs.

Kicker is, the devices work fine in the integration page. Just the esphome config page is giving me issues.

Anyone know how to check where the problem is? Not having log viewing and OTA is proving to be… not ideal lol.

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Is mDNS working on your network?

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Right now, I don’t think so. But maybe I am grossly ignorant of mDNS but the hostname works through the system from my pfsense config, I can ping the individual devices via their hostnames. Is mDNS different? I’ll try to read up on it as I am not that familiar.

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What is your local dns domain? If it is not .local, but instead something like .home or .lan try adding the following to your yaml file

wifi:
  the usual options
  domain: ".home"
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Thanks for the help!

I poked around in pfsense and disabled its DNS resolver, and enabled a mDNS service and things are working… so its something mDNS related it seems. Ill keep poking around but this may just be what I use.

Thanks!

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